Day 2

For breakfast this morning Jeannette had rice bran cereal with almond milk.  I bought the cereal because the only ingredients were brown rice and brown rice syrup.  I wasn't sure about it because of the brown rice syrup, but I thought it might be okay.  She didn't like it, so we dumped that bowl and she had a bowl plain with no milk.  We forgot to take the vitamins, but she had to get to school.  For lunch today I packed her 3 slices of ham, 2 pieces of cheese and sugar free jell-o with chocolate coconut milk.  After the kids were off to school, I started to do some more research to only discover that she's not supposed to eat cheese and she can't have the jell-o either because it has aspartame.

I had to pick her up at school today to take her to get some blood drawn.  We were having her thyroid tested again to make sure we have an accurate read.  When I got to school, she was at lunch.  When I found her, she had eaten the jell-o, cheese, coconut milk, but not the ham.  When I asked her what was wrong with the ham, she said she didn't like it.  It was stringy.

For the rest of the afternoon, I tried to bake a few things that I found recipes for via different web-sites.  The first one I attempted to make was baked crackers.   I found this recipe Crispy Crackers.  The only difference was that I used sesame oil instead of the macadamia nut oil because I couldn't find that.  When Jeannette came home I had her try them and she said that she like them.  I tried them and they weren't bad.  I felt the sesame oil was a little strong though.  She asked about putting some cinnamon and Truvia on them, so she licked the cracker and I sprinkled some on and she said she liked it even better.  The next batch will have to be the cinnamon/stevia version.  She was still pretty hungry, so I made her some scrambled eggs and uncured organic bacon.

Later that night, I took Jeannette with me to the local health food store.  I wanted to see what other items I could buy that would be yeast free/sugar free/gluten free.  I was able to find the Mary gone crackers that I had read about on a blog.  They had an herb one and a plain one, so I bought both.  They were $4 a box. Yikes!  I also found a huge bottle of vegetable glycerin.  I found that ingredient in a bunch of different recipes.  I also found some wild rice rice cakes.  Jeannette said that she tried them at a friends house and liked them, so I bought one bag.

For dinner tonight Jeannette had the "pasta" that I found for her.  It's brown rice and water.  Although it had the right ingredients, I didn't really pay attention to the carb count.  I wasn't even thinking about that at the time I bought them.  I was just trying to find things that had the right ingredients that she could eat. She had the pasta with her non-dairy butter and some parmesan cheese.  I read on one of the websites that she can eat cheese as long as it hasn't been aged more than 6 months and this seemed to be okay.  Along with the pasta, she had a yogurt with her probiotic in it and a chocolate coconut milk.

I'm starting to get concerned about how I am going to be able to get all these supplements into her body with all these new food restrictions.  I figure a few flubs here and there with the food will be okay.  The yogurt is yoplait and out of all the kids yogurts on the market, it's the one that has the least amount of sugar.  So I justified it.  Jeannette decided that she wanted to try the probiotic alone and not mixed in with anything.  After a few nibbles, she said that it was good, but after she ate the whole teaspoon, she decided she didn't like it plain and wanted it mixed into her yogurt next time.  Darn! I was thinking I might have actually been able to give up the yogurt.  Now what?